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Passion & Solutions Activity report © Kristoffer Trolle © Kristoffer © Viguier_Sistostudio_Orpheo © Armel Istin Designing solutions for a positive life Artelia, an independent multi-disciplinary Consulting engineering & project Master planning management company & feasibility Design & engineering Construction & project management Asset & facility Mobility - Water - Energy - Buildings - Industry 4 Editorial management Turnkey solutions 6 10 years of Artelia, 100 years of experience PROGRESS 6 100 employees 8 CSR commitments 10 New arrivals in Artelia Group Top 1% 12 Our Business Boosters continue to structure of engineering 100 % and architecture capital held by managers 14 Acquiring the means to be more innovative companies and employees 15 Digital: Artelia gains speed 16 Strengthen our presence with our customers CHALLENGES Advanced Status The highest level of €637 M 18 Climate change resilience reporting in the United 2020 turnover 22 Energy transition Nations Global Compact 30 Sustainable use of resources 36 Advanced industrial facilities 44 Multimodal mobility Operations 65% 50 More livable cities in more than private-sector clients 58 Regeneration of the built environment 40 countries 85% 55 offices in Europe in France 3 Editorial What should we remember from this the purchase of Dr.techn. Olav Olsen, operating out of France and Norway respectively, reinforced Artelia demonstrates unusual year in terms of activity and our expertise in maritime engineering, offshore projects? structures and nuclear. SDZ ProcessRéa provides the Group with valuable know-how in automated CI - The crisis clearly prompted genuine questions building logistics, demand for which has grown its resilience and about the future of our society all over the world. strongly with the surge in e-commerce. The temporary or permanent reduction in travel, wholesale use of home working, the need to CI - Clearly, performance is certainly measured incorporate the pandemic risk in all areas where by economic results, but true performance is far prepares for the future the public can go, a rapid increase in soft modes more global. Specifically, Artelia was awarded of transport are prompting serious considerations “Advanced” status in the Global Compact France, about our future development requirements in both the highest level of reporting given to only a office buildings and transport infrastructure. The hundred companies out of the organization’s 1,300 pandemic has also highlighted vulnerabilities in our members, and which had not been awarded to any society, for example in the healthcare sector. It has engineering firm to date. This is a great recognition bolstered our idea of putting adapting to climate of our contribution to the seventeen United Nations change at the top of our priorities. There was a real Sustainable Development Goals. Similarly, Artelia shift in this regard in 2020. Foundation deployed a significant emergency fund in which a dozen of our subsidiaries were involved BC - It is our role as a consulting, engineering and in 2020. This is further proof of our overall approach project management company to create tangible to performance. and innovative solutions to meet these challenges. To give an example, Artelia mobilized in France, Italy and the United Kingdom to help better manage the pandemic in healthcare facilities. The Group There was also a lot of talk about the steers decarbonized energy production projects future in 2020 with the development of (hydroelectric dams, solar farms and wind farms, etc.) in Africa, Asia and Central America. In France the Horizon 2025 strategy plan. What we studied the use of hydrogen on islands and are the main highlights? helped the Pays de la Loire regional authorities set up their own group of climate change experts. We helped Armenia to develop risk mapping tools that CI - It was indeed a busy year for thinking about the can be transposed to other European countries. Group’s future. We set out twelve quantified CSR Our construction, mobility, and industry specialists targets for 2025. Together we redefined our mission have stepped up their effort to create increasingly statement, “Designing solutions for a positive life,” efficient, safe and enjoyable developments. One and reformulated our five cardinal values. We also developed the Group’s new strategy called “Horizon Claude Imauven Benoît Clocheret example is the design of the Climate Change Laboratory intended to enhance research in 2025”, a major group effort carried out over several CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER sustainable technologies in Denmark. There is also months. At the same time, we commemorated both the construction of the Origine complex boasting the tenth anniversary of Artelia and its 100-year exemplary environmental performance in Paris La heritage with the publication of a book tracing Défense, the creation of a completely automated its history. 2020 will thus have been a year of The Covid-19 pandemic has Benoît Clocheret - We have undeniably fought test bench for sensor supplier Auxitrol, the laying resolutely looking forward. changed the world. How has back against the pandemic. I think we even made of the first tracks of the Grand Paris Express metro progress in 2020. We owe that progress firstly system and the launch of the Grand Parc Garonne BC - This strategic reflection led us to clearly Artelia Group adapted to this to the flexibility, commitment, and creativity project, which is designed to make the best out of express the Group’s aspirations: increase our major event? of our people, who collectively overcame the city, the river and the environment. international presence (with the right mix of difficulties and sometimes even used them as ambition and control), bolster our extensive transformation drivers. We also owe it to the multidisciplinary approach and make full use of Claude Imauven - Artelia demonstrated Group’s multidisciplinary approach and strong the potential of digital to transform our business. enormous resilience in a global international presence that made it possible for us You say you did more than resist in 2020; To achieve this, we must stay true to our “human situation deeply impacted by the public to benefit from markets that were relatively spared you made progress. So: what noteworthy compass,” which is our aspiration to be useful to health crisis. Despite concerns about by the pandemic, such as Denmark and Vietnam, the world and to people, to remain a group where the pandemic, constraints imposed two important countries for Artelia. Our digital achievements can you point to globally in human values are at the heart of actions and by lockdowns and a global economic infrastructure, in which we have been continuously terms of expansion and performance? decisions, to become a bit more inclusive every day. slowdown, the Group also demonstrated investing for years, has also proven crucial in We want to provide our teams with an attractive continuing study and design activities remotely. Our remarkable adaptability. While making BC - There were four fine external growth operations work environment, a key challenge, and of course the health of our staff members a top turnover amounted to €637 million, a contraction of completed. The acquisition of Austin Newport, reaffirm our commitment to broad share ownership priority, we managed to maintain all our only 6.5% on the previous year. Our operating profit which specialises in renovating historic buildings, by managers and staff which lies at the foundation activities for our customers in the forty totalled €23.5 million, a very concrete reflection of strengthened our position in the United Kingdom. of our Group. And here we are, working together on countries where we operate. Artelia’s resilience during this exceptional year. The acquisition of a majority stake in Principia and all these issues. 4 ARTELIA 2020 Activity report 5 10 years of Artelia, THEC joins Coteba 2006 Independence of Coteba 2003 100 years of experience (previously a Nexity subsidiary) Independence of Sogreah (from Alcatel group) Today, our Group brings together the expertise 1998 Sogelerg joins the Thales of five major engineering firms, each with a group and becomes THEC long and fascinating history. Independence of Auxitec 1994 1992 MOE merges with Brodsgaard Austin Newport, Principia, Dr.techn. Olav Olsen and SDZ ProcessRea join Artelia Group Merger of 2020 Sogelerg and Sogreah 1976 6,100 staff members Sogei joins Cegelerg to establish Sogelerg 1969 Auxitec established 1964 MOE joins Artelia Group 2019 5,900 staff members 2018 revenue (Artelia and MOE combined): €623 M Coteba established 2017 Auxitec Ingénierie joins Artelia 1961 within Générale des Eaux group 4,900 staff members 2016 turnover (Artelia and Auxitec combined): €520 M Sogreah established 1955 initially as LDH Birth of Artelia 1930 MOE established 2010 The result of merging Coteba and Sogreah Co-chaired by Alain Bentéjac and Jacques Gaillard 1923 Sige established, becoming Sogei in 1945 2,500 staff members - Revenue: €250 M Laboratoire Dauphinois 1920 d’Hydraulique (LDH) established 6 ARTELIA 2020 Activity report 7 Commit to civic and humanitarian causes OUR TARGETS Progress OUR COMMITMENTS • Aim to invest an amount equivalent to at • Promote social, economic and environmental least 3% of the Group’s operating income initiatives, in particular by supporting the actions of in the Foundation each year Artelia Foundation. • Require 100% of our business partners • Pursue a responsible purchasing